Are there any documents for an absolute beginner with regards setting up Jack and Ardour? I suspect getting either working may well be beyond my rather feeble computing skills, but I’m willing to give it a shot. Currently I’m struggling to even set up Jack, and most of the instructions I seem to be reading are specific to certain sound cards, or simply don’t work for me. I’ve installed Ardour, Jack (plus GUI) and JAMin. But I’m struggling to get Jack working with anything.
I’m currently running Linux MINT 5.0 and have a Sound Blaster Live 24 Bit card. Could anyone chuck a little advice at me to get me going? Ardour looks like a great piece of kit. It would be a shame if my ignorance prevented me from taking advantage of it.
I’ve been using Linux for about 5 years but only have a basic knowledge of fiddling around with it. So be warned.
The bad news is that you appear to have yet another computer with a Truly Awful Audio Interface ™. The good news is that you should join the Ardour IRC channel (see the support page for details) and the nice people there will, in real time, help you figure out how best to use the piece of garbage that someone decided to install on your motherboard.
Can you be more specific with exactly what sort of problem you are having? Are you running qjackctrl… does the server start, are you having x-run problems, does it crash… etc… paste a printout of the Messages in Jack if you don’t know how to answer directly
Thanks for your response. Yes I do have qjackctrl installed and no the server won’t start. It says it’s starting, but then two seconds later it stops with the following messages.
18:06:14.158 Patchbay deactivated.
18:06:14.236 Statistics reset.
18:06:14.295 ALSA connection graph change.
18:06:14.471 ALSA connection change.
18:06:25.136 Startup script...
18:06:25.137 artsshell -q terminate
18:06:25.933 Startup script terminated with exit status=256.
18:06:25.934 JACK is starting...
18:06:25.934 /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p256 -n2 -m
18:06:25.936 JACK was started with PID=7555.
jackd 0.109.2
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 44100
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|256|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 256 frames (5.8 ms), buffer = 2 periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for playback
playback and capture sample rates do not match (48000 vs. 44100)
18:06:28.149 Server configuration saved to "/home/melchizedek/.jackdrc".
18:06:28.150 Statistics reset.
18:06:28.151 Client activated.
18:06:28.153 JACK connection change.
18:06:28.162 JACK connection graph change.
18:06:28.163 XRUN callback (1).
18:06:30.163 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:32.189 XRUN callback (195 skipped).
18:06:34.194 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:06:36.206 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:38.214 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:40.222 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:42.230 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:44.238 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:46.247 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:48.254 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:50.262 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:52.274 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:54.289 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:06:56.296 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:06:58.303 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:00.313 XRUN callback (194 skipped).
18:07:02.322 XRUN callback (195 skipped).
18:07:04.337 XRUN callback (193 skipped).
18:07:06.342 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:08.353 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:10.365 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:12.373 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:14.390 XRUN callback (198 skipped).
18:07:16.399 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:18.413 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:20.418 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:22.429 XRUN callback (194 skipped).
18:07:24.438 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:26.449 XRUN callback (198 skipped).
18:07:28.455 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:30.466 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:32.485 XRUN callback (194 skipped).
18:07:34.498 XRUN callback (186 skipped).
18:07:36.510 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:38.518 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:40.526 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:42.534 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:44.546 XRUN callback (187 skipped).
18:07:46.554 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:48.563 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:50.574 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:52.583 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:07:54.594 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:56.605 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:07:58.617 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:08:00.621 XRUN callback (194 skipped).
18:08:02.629 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:04.634 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:06.642 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:08:08.657 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:10.669 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:12.671 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:14.678 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:08:16.683 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:18.690 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:20.698 XRUN callback (195 skipped).
18:08:22.706 XRUN callback (195 skipped).
18:08:24.714 XRUN callback (192 skipped).
18:08:26.726 XRUN callback (189 skipped).
18:08:28.734 XRUN callback (195 skipped).
18:08:30.747 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:32.754 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:08:34.762 XRUN callback (195 skipped).
18:08:36.771 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:08:38.775 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:08:40.783 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:42.793 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:08:44.802 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:46.807 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:48.818 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:08:50.830 XRUN callback (198 skipped).
18:08:52.837 XRUN callback (196 skipped).
18:08:54.124 Client deactivated.
18:08:54.125 JACK is stopping...
jack main caught signal 15
no message buffer overruns
18:08:54.185 JACK was stopped successfully.
18:08:54.186 Post-shutdown script...
18:08:54.186 killall jackd
jackd: no process killed
18:08:54.615 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256.
Eventually, I stop it manually. Also, in one of the links you supplied, it says to enable realtime in setup. When I do this and restart I get the following…
18:14:01.896 Patchbay deactivated.
18:14:01.990 Statistics reset.
18:14:02.023 ALSA connection graph change.
18:14:02.198 ALSA connection change.
18:14:04.425 Startup script...
18:14:04.425 artsshell -q terminate
18:14:04.846 Startup script terminated with exit status=256.
18:14:04.846 JACK is starting...
18:14:04.847 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p256 -n2 -m
18:14:04.849 JACK was started with PID=7635.
jackd 0.109.2
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 44100
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|256|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 256 frames (5.8 ms), buffer = 2 periods
ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit little-endian
ALSA: use 2 periods for playback
playback and capture sample rates do not match (48000 vs. 44100)
18:14:07.030 Server configuration saved to "/home/melchizedek/.jackdrc".
18:14:07.031 Statistics reset.
18:14:07.057 Client activated.
18:14:07.058 JACK connection change.
18:14:07.061 JACK connection graph change.
18:14:07.070 XRUN callback (1).
18:14:09.066 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:14:11.075 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:14:13.086 XRUN callback (197 skipped).
18:14:15.101 XRUN callback (198 skipped).
18:14:15.194 Client deactivated.
18:14:15.195 JACK is stopping...
jack main caught signal 15
no message buffer overruns
18:14:15.214 JACK was stopped successfully.
18:14:15.215 Post-shutdown script...
18:14:15.215 killall jackd
jackd: no process killed
18:14:15.623 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256.